Jessica Abbott (born 22 July 1985) is an Australian

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Career

Abbott first competed for Australia at the

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where she won gold in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay alongside Melinda Geraghty,

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and

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and won bronze in the 50 metre backstroke event. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in

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, Abbott won bronze in the 400 metre individual medley in 4:47.11. and finished 6th

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in 2:17.00. She competed in the

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, Japan in the 200 metre butterfly and made the finals both the

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and 400 metre individual medleys. At the 2003 World Championships in

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, Abbott finished 21st in the 400 metre individual medley in 4:52.72. At the 2003 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, both Jessica and her sister Chloe Abbott represented Australia in swimming simultaneously - the first sisters to do so since Karen and Narelle Moras at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

References

1985 births Living people Australian female backstroke swimmers Australian female butterfly swimmers Australian female freestyle swimmers Australian female medley swimmers Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Australian women Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub